Macpro's Journals

Your Older Photos

Once upon a time I had more than 3000 photos here. I know I deleted a few but not more than 200. So it seems I am missing about 1200 or more photos. Hmmm... oh well, this is no longer my primary photo sharing place.

Any of the old timers who had more than a thousand photos have had older photos disappear?

Not All Uploads Work

Oh boy, BuzzNet fooled around with the layout and interface again. For some reason I cannot upload bulk photos with my Mac using Firefox. What's up with that???

Plus why can't our friends be on the front like how it was before with all the other options on the front too. I don't like having to click on the links to reveal the other options like Upload and Post or Friends just to see who had the most recent post or photo.

The interface should be left alone. It wasn't broken.

Also our color themes seem to have been minimalized.

Photos Not Uploading

So what is up with BuzzNet today? I tried to upload 6 photos and I get some kind of database full error and no photos in the spots where they are supposed to be. What's up with that? Has BuzzNet implemented some kind of upload quota or photo block? I only uploaded about 30 photos this month... way less than the 200 minimum per month.

Options

Yesterday when I was tryng to adjust something in the BuzzNet Dashboard, I noticed that they had display options for whatever you want your default page to be. I don't know if these options were here from the time they implemented the massive layout change... but hey, they are here now and I can save my default page option very close to how the site was like before, with the dominant photo being the centerpiece of your site taken from the most recent upload in your main album.

So BuzzNet has somewhat redeemed itself in allowing us an option to go back to how the layout was a few months ago. It's not perfect, but for people who use this site mainly for photo blogging it is an option well worth to have.

In order to use the option just go to your dashboard and look at the menu items to the right under the topic of "Change Main Page". Select that and then choose from the layouts you want. If you want to emphasize photos like how its been, select "photos". BuzzNet recommends the new layout, but I don't.

If you like your default page to be the new style where everything is lumped on one page then fine. For me the main default page is too "myspace.com".... I prefer photos and that is why I'm here.

Our Pictures Continue to Disappear

Why is it that our older photos continue to disappear from our BuzzNet pages? For sure BuzzNet has de-empahsized photos by trying to become another MySpace.com, much to the consternation of folks like me who initially came here to post our PHOTOS! Get with the program and FIX our old PHOTO links. It is very annoying to see busted photo icons in places where photos once were!

Look at what happened to a photo I posted back in December 2005:

http://macpro-hawaii.buzznet.com/user/photos/?id=2066488

Well there won't be anything because the photo seems to be gone! Where are our photos????

Why do we have to disclose our age and birthdate?

Another thing... why are we required to display our age on BuzzNet? For the first 2 years up to the time of the new layout woes, the public disclosure of our age was not required. Why is BuzzNet now forcing us to list this? I had to put this in after I made a minor change to my dashboard/profile thing. The only age thing that should be required is whether or not the user is over or under 18, with no specific age or birthday requirement needed. What do you say BuzzNet gods and nerds??????

Where are our old BuzzNet photos?

Besides the bad new layout de-emphasizing photos, I have also noticed that a lot of our older photos are missing. Missing from our archived photo albums, missing from older BuzzWord album links and elsewhere. In some cases I can see the thumbnails, but when I click on them, I get only a broken icon and no bigger version of the photo I uploaded... 6 months ago, a year ago, nearly 2 years ago. What's up with this? Have the de-emphasization of photos meant that many of our older photos are permanently lost in the great BuzzNet abyss? A couple of BuzzNet users have posted their concerns on our local Hawaii message board: Retrieving Old BuzzNet Photos.

GAWD I HATE IT WHEN THEY REDESIGNED THIS WEBSITE!

What the f*****?????

I haven't logged into my BuzzNet account for a few days and now I come in and EVERYTHING is changed! I hate it!

I like the old layout way better than this new one with smaller pictures, more text and more ads? I thought this was a PHOTO SHARING place! I miss my big initial photo the moment I log into my site or any others.

Why did they change BuzzNet??? I hate this layout.

And it seems more of my older photos are missing... or at least the links seem to be to certain albums, journal entries.... What's up with that????

I HATE THIS CHANGE.

Tell me what you think friends. Is it time to bail????

BuzzNet was great until this massive layout change. I really only like photos. I'm not into video. I guess that is what they want to morph into... video sharing. Yuck.

I just had to vent!!!!

Here's another gripe! Try and edit your journal.... now yo are presented with tiny type and stupid HTML codes to work around... and if you mess up, you screw up your journal entry. I hate it when change is not implemented well. Sometimes if it ain't broke, DON'T FIX IT!!!! Venting again!!!!!!!!

Vintage Macs: Powerbook 3400

My Powerbook 3400. I bought it used about 8 years ago. It was for a while my primary laptop computer until I bought a used iBook 700 last year after the hard drive on this computer went south... sort of.

The computer sat in my closet for about a year when I read an article about having this boot up from a flash card. I figured this was worth a try. So this is what I did:

I purchased a compact flash PCMIA adapter that fits into the card slot built into the Powerbook.

I had an extra 1 GB compact flash card laying around. Used that.

I formatted the compact flash card for Macintosh.

Booted the Powerbook 3400 with an OS 8.5 CD ROM.

Installed the operating system and the basic network package onto the compact flash card.

Rebooted the computer with the compact flash card after I changed the start-up settings control panel.

Installed older software that I have sitting around to make the Mac useful again.

Now I have a bunch of word processors, text editors, and HTML converter, JPEG viewer, iCab web browser and internet connectivity restored to this old Mac. It sits next to my Power Mac G4 where it is also connected to my network and uses the DSL net connection.

Makes for a great little internet machine and word processor.

What happened to my custom colors?

Looks like BuzzNet stripped some users of their custom color schemes.